gperf maintainership

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199904261619.LAA29202@taumsauk.cs.wustl.edu >you write:
  > I have put in a request to the FSF to update gperf's license from GPL v1
  > to GPL v2.  Also, from what I understand, gperf is no longer actively
  > maintained by Cygnus or anyone else (please correct me if I am wrong). 
  > Assuming that is true, I would like to suggest that the version of gperf
  > distributed with ACE ( http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html ) be
  > made the canonical gperf.  It is actively maintained by Doug Schmidt
  > and his research group and contains several enhancements and bug fixes.
I believe someone is maintaining gperf.  Most likely Bruno Haible since his
name appears a lot recently in the ChangeLog.

Any change in maintainership would need to go through RMS & the FSF.  We do
not control maintainership of packages outside the compiler itself.

jeff